[ExI] how to help?

William Flynn Wallace foozler83 at gmail.com
Fri Jun 23 22:47:54 UTC 2017


billk wrote:  Why the snide remark about the Repubs?

Because they are in now. Because of Bush Jr.  Because of Nixon.  Yeah,
there was Clinton.

Re foreign victims. Of course they do not count at all, as shown by our
name for them:  collateral damage.

bill w

On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 4:30 PM, Dan TheBookMan <danust2012 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Jun 23, 2017, at 2:16 PM, BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 23 June 2017 at 21:11, William Flynn Wallace  wrote:
> <snip>
>
> Re wars:  has there been a defensible one since WWII?  No.
>
> What will the Repubs get us into now so that their military industrial
>
> complex buddies can make more billions?
>
>
> Why the snide remark about the Repubs?
> The Dems did the same.
> The military industrial complex don't care what political religion is in
> power.
> Makes little difference to them enriching themselves.
>
>
> Right. If the MIC were a partisan concern, then we'd likely have seen far
> fewer wars and then only when one party is in power. Instead, we see even
> so called peace candidates and Nobel Peace Prize winners supporting ever
> more military intervention.
>
> After all, it all helps the USA GDP statistics.
> Produce war material, then blow it up abroad somewhere, then produce more.
> The equivalent of digging holes, then filling them in again.
> Great for business.  :(
>
>
> It's good for certain business, yes, though bad for the economy as a
> whole. A net loss along the lines of the broken window fallacy -- not to
> mention all those innocent foreigners killed in the process.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dan
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>
>
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